Real Live Poker Online for Europe at Smart Live Casino. Live Texas Hold'em Poker, Live Omaha Poker, Live Omaha Hi-Lo Poker, Live Seven Card Stud Poker and Live Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Poker at Smart Live Casino.

As with all of the Smart Gaming Group products, Smart Live Poker provides us with a unique live online Poker experience. Smart Live Poker is the newest addition to the Smart Live web site. The live Poker experience is powered by Ongame Network. Ongame is one of the largest poker networks and leading suppliers of online poker and mobile poker software. You can rest assured that you are going to participate in state of the art poker Cash games or online Poker Tournaments.

Smart Gaming Group has created its very own domain for their live Poker section. When you reach this section of their web site you will notice that the Smart Live Poker domain has all of the same features the Smart Live Casino web site has as well as its own special features. They provide you with very good “How to Play Poker” guides. Here you will find a short and sweet explanation to each of the supported Poker games, which are live Texas Hold’em Poker, live Omaha Poker, live Omaha Hi-Lo Poker, live Seven Card Stud Poker, and live Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Poker. You also have access to Smart Live Poker resources. These are very helpful and detailed information pages on Poker hand rankings, Poker strategy, Poker Glossary, Betting limits, and Payout structure. If you have any doubts concerning playing Poker online with Smart Live then these pages will have the answer.

It is very important for you to know that if you already have a username and password with Smart Live Casino you will need to create a new username and password for Smart Live Poker. I found that you are able to register the same password, but the username needs to be different. Why is this? Well, it is due to the fact as I mentioned previously that Smart Gaming Group is working with Ongame Network, which is a third party. For this reason, you need to re-register for the Ongame Poker software database. This is not a real big problem, but in my experience it did confuse me a little bit. I had to contact customer service in order to confirm that there wasn’t a problem with the web site. It kept giving me an invalid username or password message. No where in the web site does it mention that you need to register again. For some this could be a turn off, but for this reason I am warning you of this detail. Not only do you have to register again, but you also need to submit a different e-mail address than the address SLC has in their data base. Again, for some this could be a problem, especially if you only manage one e-mail account.

What the Game Consists of...

Once you have surpassed that obstacle the rest is easy. You will need to download the live Poker software unlike Smart Live Casino which is instant play Java software. You have no need to worry however, all PC’s and Mac’s (iMac, Power Book, Mac Air, and all OSX) are compatible with the live poker online Java-based software. Smart Live Poker allows you to choose from 19 different languages in which the software will be installed into your computer! Yes, 19! This is a big difference from the Live Roulette TV and Live Blackjack TV language options (they only provide you with English or German). You may notice on the live Poker home page that Smart Live Poker also provides you with Instant Play.

After you have successfully downloaded the live Poker online software you will be able to log in to your new Poker account and start to play. As with all of the Smart Gaming Group online games, you may choose to play for fun or for real money. I always recommend playing for fun before playing for real. This way you get accustomed to the online Poker software. The image you see above is the Poker Game Guide that pops-up on your computer screen. This guide offers all of the standard features you would expect while playing online poker. As you can see in the screenshot you have different types of Poker games to choose from. There is Quick Seat which is for people who quickly want to sit in at a Texas Hold’em Poker game. Here there is room for 5 players and/or for 10 players for cash games. You may also opt for the Sit and Go Tournaments in this section. The second section is the Cash Games. These are Poker games played with chips that have real cash value. You may leave the Poker Cash Games at any time. The specific Poker tables that are available in this section are Texas Hold’em Poker, Omaha Poker, Seven Card Stud Poker, Five Card Draw Poker and an option for Private Poker games. The third section is for the online Poker tournaments for all types of Poker games (Scheduled games, Sit and Go, and Private games). Smart Live Poker is very big on its tournaments. They even included special tournament bonuses in the Smart Live Poker promotions page. For the first three sections of the gaming guide you may sort the variables however you please in order to find the right Poker game for you. For example (see image below as a reference), in the Cash Games section you may choose to sort for the Omaha Hi-Lo games, with High stakes, and Shorthanded tables. The sort you have chosen will give you a list of available games. Smart Live Poker recently improved their software playability, making it easier for their players to find the table they want to play on. Instead of having to open up each game to see the action, now they have a mini table image of the ongoing game in the lobby. The improvements for the Cash game players, for the Sit and Go players and the live Tournament players. All of the Smart Live Poker games included in the Gaming Guide are updated automatically in real time.

Live Poker Layout...

Once you have made your game plan you need to go to that specific Poker table. As you can see in the image below this paragraph, the online Poker room software excels when it comes to its graphics. The Poker environment is very realistic and you are in fact playing against other real players. However, it is very different from the other live casinos CocoLoco has in their live casino roster. There is no live dealer present. You can observe that you are in fact playing against real players in real time, but it is lacking the live dealer. There is no live video or audio stream as Smart Live Casino’s live Roulette TV and live Blackjack TV awards us with. This is the major draw back to the live Poker games available at Smart Live Poker. This may let some of you down since you would expect it to be much more interactive than what they offer us here. The live Poker games are in essence still RNG games because the cards that are dealt are not done so by a real live dealer. Yes, the players who we play with are for real and you can see who leaves the tables and who joins in to replace the ones that have left, but it still doesn’t meet all of the live dealer casino characteristics.

Apart from the superior Poker room graphics, the software Smart Live Poker uses has another unique quality. The different Poker rooms all provide a blind structure that is not found in many online poker casinos. OnGame software makes it possible to play in Texas Hold’em and Omaha Poker where the small blind and big blind are of equivalent values. This is different from most online Poker casinos since most of them only permit you to play with blinds where the big blind is double the small. Brick and mortar casinos usually offer this type of blind, but online casinos rarely do.

Another detail you may have noticed is that Smart Live Poker is NOT available on TV, such as the live Roulette TV and live Blackjack TV. I have been informed that Smart Gaming Group and OnGame network are working on this matter and will have it integrated with the web site as soon as possible. For now, you will only be able to view Smart Live Poker via the web site.

All in all the live online Poker Smart Gaming Group offers us has its unique aspects, but also lacks in a few very essential characteristics for it to be considered a truly live Poker game. So please do not be surprised if you do not find everything you would expect in a live dealer casino game. However, you will not be let down completely either since the Poker software and graphics are superior to most online Poker casinos. Most importantly, the results are trustworthy!